Kantu area, Fengji Town, Dr. Takasugi's Institute of Pokémon Action and Human Behavior.

Today, Dr. Takasugi, who has always strictly followed the schedule, got up early.

"You can't prepare well..." Dr. Takasugi, who was sleepy and yawning, said in this way while brushing his teeth.

Dr. Takasugi is an old man over 70 years old but energetic. His brown eyes are always majestic, especially when he looks at others with a condescending and oppressive look. That looks really scary from the bottom of his heart. Unlike ordinary researchers and scholars who are a bit sloppy and careless, Dr. Takasugi is a person who pays great attention to personal appearance and image, and is also a very stereotyped and conservative person. As a master in today's relatively remote subject - Pokémon Action, Dr. Takasugi is also an existence that makes the alliance headache and awesome to his peers.

Dr. Takasugi, who was taught by Professor Lawrence of Wild University, can be said to be deeply influenced by his mentors in some aspects, especially in the current prevalent trainer craze and Pokémon tide, he is better than his superiors than his superiors. However, unlike his stubborn and rigid mentors, Dr. Takasugi is also a scholar who actively participates in the research and discussion of Pokémon while criticizing and shouting. He is also a down-to-earth and hard-working doer. In addition to playing an important role in the academic world today, he also has close cooperation with the alliance officials.

An important part of these cooperation is to distribute the initial Pokémon and the Pokémon official produced by the Alliance to new trainers in Fengji Town and several surrounding towns. In fact, for Dr. Takasugi himself, this is the job he is most reluctant to do.

Unlike his teacher who focuses on studying Pokémon's behavior, Dr. Takasugi pays more attention to studying the impact of human behavior on Pokémon's behavior. He has always believed that it is undoubtedly too impatient and reckless to make a formal Pokémon trainer a fourteen-year-old boy - who has been delayed by the shouting of him and his mentor - become a formal Pokémon trainer. Indeed, teenagers who have not yet been completely polluted by the world can indeed communicate and get along with Pokémon on an equal footing. However, teenagers who are in a restless period are also a big unstable factor. They are too self-righteous, casual and ignorant, and will easily inadvertently hurt themselves or the Pokémon they are bred. At the same time, they are also very likely to go astray.

According to the league's own official statistics, about 30 of every 100 new trainers will give up after the first three to six months of the journey, and less than half of the remaining seventy people can persist for more than a year. Among those who persisted, only poor single digits were allowed to be qualified for the regional conference that year. As for those who have always adhered to the path of trainers, there were only a few people.

These persistent trainers will usher in a new round of major retreat after entering youth and even middle age, but the reasons for their retreat are more practical and helpless.

There are many reasons for the new trainer to withdraw. Apart from the group of people who can't stand the hardships of hiking and the dangers of wild adventures, a large part of the remaining ones quit because they cannot handle their relationship with Pokémon. Some of them abandon their Pokémon, some are abandoned by their Pokémon, and some are attacked by Pokémon because their relationship with Pokémon deteriorates.

In addition to this reason, the accidents encountered in getting along with Pokémon are also important reasons why many new trainers and even veteran trainers withdrew - because of the wrong breeding methods and breeding objects, a large number of trainers have various accidents and are injured or even died every year.

Based on the above reasons, Dr. Takasugi has been committed to implementing the "trainer preparation class" system in the alliance. His idea is to establish a special, free Pokémon trainer school in various places, teach children of appropriate age who want to become trainers, who are interested in Pokémon how to get along with Pokémon correctly, how to correctly understand Pokémon's demands, how to protect themselves and their Pokémon from being hurt by their own stupidity, and how to face emergencies and natural disasters that may occur at any time in travel.

However, Dr. Takasugi's wish has not been truly achieved, but has promoted some so-called educational institutions such as Pokémon Professional Research Schools to emerge like mushrooms after a rain. Although they are under the guise of "cultivating professional qualities of trainers" and "teaching professional knowledge of trainers", they cannot cover up their true purpose of being a noble school and a prestigious school to charge high tuition fees. Moreover, the education system and graduation system adopted by this type of school also made Dr. Takasugi very helpless and angry. "Misleading children, there is endless legacy." This is Dr. Takasugi's general evaluation of this type of school.

As we were talking, it seemed that we were off topic. Let’s go back to Dr. Takasugi’s bathroom.

Although Dr. Takasugi was still wearing pajamas, he had become a scholar with great temperament again. While walking towards the closet, Dr. Takasugi murmured to himself: "I remember that there were two appointments today. One of them was a little ghost from the outside town. They would come later. Who is the guy in this town..." Dr. Takasugi, who had just reached out to open the closet, suddenly stopped moving, "...It's broken, why did I forget it? It's that guy!"

I don’t know what a terrible thing suddenly remembered. Dr. Takasugi didn’t even have time to change his clothes, so he hurried downstairs - he lived in the attic of the institute - while running down the stairs with the handrail, Dr. Takasugi kept muttering: “It’s broken, it’s broken…”

At this moment, Dr. Takasugi's assistant Sanmin came downstairs: "Doctor! Doctor! It's not good! The initial Pokémon was still fine last night suddenly lost one!"

When he heard this, Dr. Takasugi, who was already in a hurry, stopped as if he had a calm mind pill. He patted his chest and looked relieved.

"Don't be anxious, don't panic, calm down..." He first reminded himself, and then rushed to Sanmin downstairs and said, "Check if anything else is missing, then look everywhere for any notes, letters, etc...." After that, he turned around gracefully and walked back to his bedroom with a calm expression - wearing pajamas was very indecent.

When Dr. Takasugi, who had been dressed in a neat white coat, went downstairs again, his assistant Sanmin was already sweating and anxiously waiting for a long time.

As soon as he saw the doctor coming down, Sanmin hurriedly said, "Doctor, the three initial Pokémon lost a Johnny Turtle and the Baby Ball containing it, and the rest were not lost, and..." He handed Dr. Takasugi a small envelope with his mouth sealed, "I found this in the mailbox, for you."

"Well..." Dr. Takasugi took the envelope and saw that it was written in beautiful font "Dr. Takasugi, Meilin," and saw that Dr. Takasugi pulled the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Is there anything else that's theft? Did the picture book be lost?" Dr. Takasugi asked casually while dismantling the letter.

Seeing the doctor so calm and confidently admiring Sanmin, he heard the doctor asking questions and quickly replied: "The picture book has obviously been turned around but it has not been stolen. Nothing else has disappeared except the Johnny Turtle and its baby ball... Well, at least now, I just checked it briefly and haven't checked it in detail. Oh, by the way, Doctor, do we need to call the police?"

"There is no need to call the police, and there is no need to continue checking..." Dr. Takasugi quickly browsed the text message in his hand, folded it and put it in his pocket. "Don't worry, today's appointment took away his things in advance." Dr. Takasugi said lightly, and after that, he walked to the storage room where the baby balls were stored.

"Today's appointment?" Sanmin was stunned and blurted out in a flash: "Is it the new trainer who is going to set out today? This guy is too brave and dares to steal. How can such a person be qualified to become a trainer?"

"That's right..." Dr. Takasugi turned around and looked at Sanmin and said helplessly: "But at least we should be glad that the little bastard did not take away all three initial Pokémon." When talking about "small bastard", Dr. Takasugi deliberately changed his tone, which was quite gritting his teeth.

"Little Mix?" Sanmin's eyes lit up when he heard this word with a unique tone and said, "...is it him?"

"Who else dares besides him? Who else can?!" Dr. Takasugi touched the text message in his pocket and said meaningfully: "That guy is finally on the road..."

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Dear Dr. Takasugi:

Hello, the visit in the early morning is really abrupt, but it is unreasonable to disturb the elderly's sleep, so I won't have an interview with you in person.

I really couldn't help but feel hungry for travel, so I came to your institute a little earlier than the scheduled time, and I'm sorry that I had chosen my partner in advance and failed to say hello to you.

By the way, that female little fire dragon is really not suitable for getting along with young new trainers. Please find another way out for it.

By the way, you are really sorry for your high investment when you have recently replaced your security system, right?

By the way, your new pajamas are very cute.

Merlin

On 97.01.02

Wish you good health
Chapter completed!